Start A New Christmas Tradition

Every since my children become of age to understand the true meaning of Christmas, I've shared with them something that has become a personal tradition for me each holiday season and that is I strive to go out of my way to help someone each and every day.

Helping someone can be pretty widely interpreted and that's what makes this not only fun and creative but also very satisfying....since it brings us closer to how the Lord commanded us to treat our fellow man.

It could be as simple as stopping and keeping a door open for a mother and her children. It could be pulling over to help someone with car trouble (even though you're in a hurry...and aren't we always in a hurry?), or going to walmart and buying a case of blankets and giving them out to homeless people in your community you run across.

You get the idea here...it can be as little or as big as you want to make it. But once you start doing this, a couple things are going to happen:

1. You are going to make a number of people very surprised and happy as they are going to receive something from someone they've never met (re: being a good Samaritan).
2. You are going to be amazed how your internal radar will begin actively looking for people in need, while most times we walk through life looking to avoid conflicts or people that will slow up down in our daily rat race.
3. You are going to feel fantastic! Since we are internally hot wired to be loving and compassionate to those in need, you will find that living life like we were meant to live, brings an incredible and largely indescribable feeling of joy. And besides that of course, the Bible tells us that we will be storing up treasure in heaven.

So start this new tradition on December 14th, with our new "Twelve Days of Christmas", where each day comes with a your gift of a good deed or helping hand given to someone in need. Keep track of them, write them down (in your journal or on your blog, facebook etc....), make it a contest with you kids, your office-mates, your homegroup or ministry.

But a warning.... one other benefit to doing this is, that you'll want to do it more, not just during the Christmas holiday, but every month of the year. So watch out...doing good selfless deeds, is contagious!

If you take challenge on, make sure to send me a note....let me know how it goes and what you accomplished.

R.J. Luedke
www.headpress.info

Things I'm Thankful For (2009)

Hey Gang:

I just wanted to give you an update on my progress with Unknown God and share a few things I'm thankful for on the very special Thursday morning.

As of yesterday, I started the home stretch on this largest of all the Eye Witness GN's. I began work on the final 20 pages, which will wrap up almost 8 years and 400 pages of storyline.....YEA! Please say a prayer for me that I can do this justice as it requires me to really stretch my talents to their limits to bring this project across the finish line in a complete and satisfying fashion.

Some things I'm thankful for...

-My loving wife (Sandy) of now over 26 years, who provides me the environment that has allowed me to pursue the EW project.

-That God has graced my children with health.

-That the Cowboys play each thanksgiving day.

-That 8 years ago God revealed his plan for, what up till then I thought, was a pretty wasted life.

-That God continues to bless this wonderful bastion of freedom we know as the USA. And even though we are currently going through some tremendous trials and growing pains as a country and people, that all these experiences will serve to make us stronger and more thankful...as it did our forefathers (and mothers) who weathered the storm of the great depression.

-recipes passed down through generations, like creme cheese based potato topping and liver turkey stuffing (it's on old-world German thang)...yum!

-and finally...that when all else seems dark in our lives that we still have the ability to laugh!

Happy Turkey day all...and be on the lookout for more sample artwork from Unknown God soon, as well as a pretty exciting announcement!

R.J. Luedke

http://www.headpress.info/

Eye Witness Slide Show

Get a taste of a cross section of my artwork from all four books from the Eye Witness graphic novel series:

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Eye Witness Graphic Novels Come to iPhones

10/29/09

I'm very excited to announce that Eye Witness has now entered into a whole new method of distribution with its release in the Comixology iphone application.



To begin with, Comixology is the first place outside of our own website where comic and graphic novel fans can purchase the revised and remastered edition of Eye Witness: A Fictional Tale of Absolute Truth. This first graphic novel in the Eye Witness tetraology, is broken up into three parts for this app. Each part costs only 99 cents, so it's quite a bargain! The next chapter in the Eye Witness saga, (Acts of the Spirit) will be offered in a similar serialized format soon.


To purchase the Comixology app. for your iphone, visit the iphone app store. Once you have the Comixology app in place on your phone, you can search by Title, publisher (Head Press Publishing) or Genre (Christian), to purchase Eye Witness...or just go to the Eye Witness page on the Comixology website.

ABOUT COMIXOLOGY

Since 2007, through it's comiXology brand, Iconology, Inc. has been working to expose more people to the world of comics, through comiXology.com and related applications. We are uniquely situated to connect all parts of the comic book industry: consumers, distributors, publishers and creators. ComiXology.com, comic book retailer tools, iPhone and Blackberry apps and digital comics are all connected through the comiXology platform.




Here's a quick tour of the Comixology application and how it will revolutionize the way you read comics and graphic novels:


R. J. Luedke

http://www.headpress.info/